According to Sales Manager Kimmo Kurki, any type of heating system is possible for Herrala Houses.

By choosing Herrala Houses’ carefully designed and
thought out prefabricated houses, the builder gets an ecological and
energy-efficient home.

“Low-energy and passive house construction is a current trend. Herrala Houses
has been building low-energy houses for some time now, and passive
houses were introduced in our range a couple of years ago,” Sales
Manager Kimmo Kurki explains.

According to Kurki,
consumers nowadays are well informed in terms of energy and
eco-efficiency issues. This is evident already in the planning stage.

“The
discussions we have with our customers usually concern issues such as
the heating system they’ve chosen. As houses have been getting larger,
many customers have settled on environmentally friendly geothermal
heating and some have installed solar panels to provide additional
heating. As far as Herrala Houses is concerned, any type of heating
system is possible,” Kurki says.

Growing demand for passive houses

Kimmo
Kurki says that the demand for Herrala Houses’ passive homes has been
steady. The wall structure of a passive house that consumes very little
energy has approximately double the amount of insulation compared with a
standard single-family house. Kurki thinks it important that
well-informed customers can opt for an extremely low-energy passive
house as their home.

“Energy consumption and the need for heating
and cooling must be determined case-by-case, so the planning must take
energy-efficiency issues into account as a whole, right from the very
early stages. It is very important that the houses are airtight, because
in the end, a house can only be called passive after airtightness
measures and energy consumption monitoring have confirmed that it is
passive.”

Ecological wood-based fibre insulation

As of last summer, Herrala House customers have had a choice between traditional glass or rock wool insulation and ecological Ekovilla,
a wood-based fibre insulation. As the insulation can be blown in, the
installation in roofs, basement floors and walls is quick. The end
result is a warm, airtight, breathing, and safe home – in an instant.
Ekovilla thermal insulation conserves nature, as it is made from wood
fibre, i.e. recycled paper. It binds the carbon in the fibre for all of
its lifetime, thus lowering the energy consumption of the household.
Seamless and airtight, Ekovilla insulation cuts heating costs
efficiently, thereby also reducing the house’s carbon footprint.

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